#asia #news #northkorea - Meet the teen who could rule North Korea | Meanwhile in Asia: CNN

31 October 2026

Kim Jong Un’s teenage daughter is being pictured beside weapons and world leaders. Could she be the next ruler of North Korea? CNN’s Will Ripley joins Ivan and Kunal to make an educated guess at the Kim dynasty’s succession plans. 0:00 Kim Jong Un’s daughter: Is She North Korea’s next leader? 6:13 The power struggle behind North Korea’s succession 12:38 Inside North Korea’s Kim Dynasty 14:49 The rise of Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s most powerful leader 16:44 Mysterious assassinations, purges and protecting the Kim Dynasty

Meanwhile in Asia

North Korea has been blamed for the biggest heist in history after hackers stole $6.3bn (£4.7bn) from the cryptocurrency giant Binance. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange is racing to recover funds and has blocked customer withdrawals in the wake of the theft, which analysts said was planned by elite North Korean hackers. 🔗 https://t.co/IzmqQQkgVa

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) October 30, 2026

The United States, South Korea and Japan have reiterated their longstanding call for North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, a move Pyongyang has repeatedly ruled out ⤵️ https://t.co/cWM6SSUyYA

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) October 31, 2026

#NorthKorea #Russia #Ukraine - North Korean forces suffering 'mass casualties' on Russian frontlines with Ukraine | DW News

28 December 2024

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says several wounded North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine while fighting in Russia have died. He accused Russia of throwing them into battle with quote "minimal protection". Pyongyang has sent an estimated 11,000 troops to support the Russian armed forces. North Koreans are reportedly being deployed in the Kursk region - the Russian territory captured by Ukraine over the summer. US officials say North Korean forces are suffering "mass casualties" there on the front lines, with around a thousand soldiers killed or wounded this past week alone. Here's Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaking about the North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine: ''The Russians send them into assaults with minimal protection. Today, there were reports about several soldiers from North Korea. Our soldiers managed to capture them, but they were very seriously wounded and could not be revived. This is one of the manifestations of the madness that dictatorships are capable of. The Korean people should not lose their people in battles in Europe. And this can be influenced by Korea's neighbors, particularly China. If China is sincere in its statements that the war should not expand, appropriate influence on Pyongyang is needed.''

#NorthKorea #Russia #Ukraine _ Jenny Town is a Senior Fellow at the US think tank Stimson Center and the Director of Stimson’s 38 North Program which provides analysis of events in and around North Korea. Edward Howell is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Oxford and an expert on Korea.

#russia #ukraine - What are North Korean troops doing in Russia, and how will the world respond? | BBC News

2 November 2024

The US election is just days away with Democrat candidate Kamala Harris and Republican candidate Donald Trump remaining neck-and-neck in the polls.

The result will have major implications across the globe - including for the war in Ukraine.

November 19th will mark 1000 days since Russian troops invaded Ukraine, and now North Korea is directly involved. It has deployed 10,000 troops to Russia, with many of them understood to be in Russia’s Kursk Oblast region.

 

In this week’s Security Brief, former senior British officer and assault helicopter pilot Mikey Kay tells us how a Trump presidency would change the US approach to Ukraine, and how The West might respond to North Korea joining forces with Russia. 

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